also...

my friend max is performing at cakeshop this weekend (he's gogo dancing). please come! i'll be there!

superfriends went out.

I'm happy to be represented on the "zing went out" post on the website (thanks anna!). A few of my friends and i have this thing we do on wednesday (cause we all miraculously have wednesdays off) called "superfriends wednesday" where we pick something hilarious and fun to do as a group activity. last week we went to chelsea market and ate thai food. this week we hung out around park slope and went to the "superhero supply store", which is bascially a store that masks an organization (called 826nyc http://www.826nyc.org/) started by dave eggers (and the mcsweeney's people) of free tutoring for kids. the store sells anything you might need if you were a super hero in need of supplies (bottles of antidote, pressure guns (that shoot ping pong balls), capes, masks, motion detectors, maps of good and evil parts of nyc etc.) here are some pictures:

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i've been thinking all day about what to write in the blog today (as i've been counting letters and putting labels on envelopes. it should just be stated here and now that one of my favorite activites is doing mailings - from years of doing them working for my mom in the summer growing up. something about letters is appealing to begin with but then there is the wonderful mindless repetition...peel label, place label, stack envelope, grab next envelope, peel label, place label etc. I LOVE IT). so...right. i've been thinking about the blog all day and i couldn't decide on one topic in particular so i'm just going to state a few facts that i learned over the course of the day/weekend:

-I really like park slope a lot.
-ratatouille was not as good as the incredibles but that doesn't change the fact that i'm in love with brad bird and the graphics were terrific. amazing developments in the renderman technology.
-antibiotics can make you feel weird sometimes.
-andrea zittel is my favorite artist. I once wrote a paper about the psychology of confined spaces and i referenced her. I want to meet her someday.

another daydream thing i thought about all day was how to construct a honeycomb in 3D using maya. i think the windows in zing made me think of this. I'll try it out and post something next week.

ciao,

zingintern esq.

Hello...

..to all our faithful zingblog readers! Happy Monday! It's the start of another beautiful week here in NYC, and the best part is--for all of you NYers whom apparently can't stand to be in the city during the weekend--you can pretend you're on vacation in San Francisco! (at least for today)
But seriously though folks...
Today marks the beginning of my second-to-last week at zing (tear). Not that I'm counting down or anything, I just thought I'd give you all notice so it won't be as much of a blow to you next week. Anger is part of grieving, so is crying, so don't be afraid to let it all out. But until then, I remain you're everyday, loyal zingintern, answering your emails and making lists.

FYI:
Drew Carey is the new Bob Barker?
that's funny. and I don't mean the 'haha that's funny' funny, but the 'ew that tastes funny' funny.

Gee I wish it were Monday

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Today I found this super helpful website, lowereastsidenyc.com, and it had a list of every business separated into categories. So I went through the list, figured out which places might buy ads on our website, and called them. So far nobody wants to buy an ad--even though it's a crazy good deal! Only $100 per month to get your ad on the site and in the weekly newsletter. I'll probably continue these phone calls next week. It's a little discouraging, but probably good practice for me, since journalists have to call complete strangers for interviews all the time.

Oh yeah, also, the peach I brought for lunch today was gross. But the other intern picked me up a replacement apple on her lunch hour--ain't she sweet?

See you all next week!

I'm back bitches!

That's right! The Original Non-Anonymous-Who-Later-Became-
Anonymous Intern is back! I went back upstate for a few weeks to finish up my thesis, then went to Maine for two weeks to attend Haystack Arts Camp. I now possess a masters degree in arts journalism and know how to do lithography. I'll have to scan the lithos I made and post them in here in the coming days.

It is good to be back. I missed NYC, especially with it being freezing and rainy every day in Maine. Yeah, it's disgustingly hot and humid here, but it's better than being able to see my breath and having all my clothes feel perpetually damp! Too bad they sorta replaced me here at zing while I was gone. There are now two other new interns.

Tonight we're going to galleries! Hooray! It's been too long. Syracuse doesn't exactly offer much of an art scene.

Kinda hungry. I wish we had some grilled cheese...

P.S. Village Voice Siren Music Fest this Saturday afternoon! Be there or be square. And when you're there, be sure to check out the Detroit Cobras. Sure, their name is totally dumb, but they're a female garage rock band that plays strictly covers of 60s pop songs. NPR had a feature on them last week. They are AWSOME.